A Teen's Descent into DelinquencyThough most teenagers are hormonal, moody, and most of all temperamental, they are often misunderstood. Teenagers go through a series of changes and emotional states. More often than not, parents do not realize the repercussions their actions could have on their child. In the story, “Teenage Wasteland” by Anne Tyler, Donny is lackadaisical in his school work which is deleterious to his overall grade. Daisy, his mother, tries to salvage his grade by taking extreme measures. She goes from one bad idea to another in hopes of changing his faineant behavior. Even though daisy is trying to help, one cannot be either too lenient or too inexorable in doing so.

Like all parents, daisy wants the best for her child. She sees potential, but his unacceptable effort drives her to be strict and harsh. Daisy is scared that Donny may not succeed in life, unless he gets his act together. This fear pushes her to control all of Donny’s work. On Donny’s teacher’s request, Daisy checks his homework every night. Since she started so late at being a responsible parent, she “saw the poor quality of everything he did.” It isn’t that Donny is incapable of doing the schoolwork. It is that since he’s been slacking off for so long, he doesn’t know how to do it correctly or matter of fact, care. Not seeing the ruse for what it is, is unfortunate. However, being fooled by Donny doesn’t make Daisy a bad parent, but the steps she takes afterwards does. She both under and overreacts to Donny’s predicament. Unfortunately, she lets her anger and frustration take over thus influencing Donny’s behavior unfavorably. Parenting requires a unique balance of control.

The hardest thing for parents to do is raise kids. They not only have to take them everywhere, but they also have to teach them what is right and wrong. Most parents use the reward and punishment system, much like trainers do for their dogs. If they do something good, they get an item of interest. If...

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Assignment 6
Motivation is known as the powerful force that causes the change from desire to willpower in life. Hunger is one example of motivation which creates the desire to eat. Motivation can also be defined as the procedure that starts guides and continues goal oriented actions. Motivation is generally used to explain the reason for a person’s actions. Another example of motivation is when a student is really motivated to get into medical school, so he/she studies every night for it. There are many theories of motivation proposed by various psychologists. Instinct theory, drive theory, and humanistic theory are some of the examples of motivation theories
Motivational studies are very important especially for managers in big companies. These studies deliver insights into the way employees perform at work and this gives the employer or the manager the techniques required to increase worker productivity.
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Three types of motivational theory can be seen in different organization. The theories are: Maslow’s hierarchy theory, Herzberg’s theory and vroom’s theory.
Maslow’s theory indicates that where motivation fulfills the demand and needs of an employee. Maslow discovered the theory in 1943. This theory can be shown as pyramid. There are down to top approach in this theory. A new comer always needs his job for satisfying himself by getting food and shelter which is a psychological need. The second lower one is security and safety. An employee of an organization always needs his job security and freedom in the organization or either he will get demotivated. The middle step is social class. Employee always wants social class. If he doesn’t get the job he deserves, then the employee will be demotivated. That is why any employee needs this social class and standard that he deserves. Then he will have some Esteem needs which include recognition, independent, status etc. In that situation, money is not the primary factor. He wants recognition and status and he wants to get promoted and his need will be higher comparing to the previous step. The last and first in the pyramid is self actualization. This is the satisfactory level and it indicates that he is satisfied with what he’s doing. This is the level which is the fulfillment of personal potential.
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Workplace Motivation
Kelly M. Giminiani
PSY/320 - Human Motivation
August 4, 2014
Bernadette Tjarks, Ph. D.
Workplace Motivation
Time Warner Cable Inc. (TWC) is the second largest provider of video, high-speed data, and voice services in the United States. The organization connects over 15 million customers and employs over 50,000 people (Time Warner Cable, Inc., 2014).
Rob Marcus, Chairman and CEO understands the commitment and importance of Time Warner Cable. "Across our footprint, we have built a corporate social responsibility strategy for our business that we believe best represents those areas that we can most effectively influence and positively impact for the future benefit of all of our communities" (Robert D. Marcus, personal communication, January 1, 2014).
According to TWC's career center (2014), "A career with Time Warner Cable gives you the opportunity to feed your passion and foster personal growth. All while helping our customers take control of their lives through services that are simple and easy. They are free to watch their favorite TV shows whenever they want to watch them. Free to upload, download and do everything in between on the Internet. Free to get content wherever and whenever they are on the go. And this freedom works for you too, as you strive to attain your own personal career goals. All it will take is your enthusiasm - and a company like Time Warner Cable" ("Company Overview").
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...initially ran a website designing company called w3leverage.com and wanted to expand his line of work.
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Career plan and motivation:
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...Motivation is any internal or external process, which is involved in prompting and terminating behaviour. All our instinctive responses are reflexes, whereas all our intended activities involve motivation. But one's motivation cannot be observed directly. It is inferred from the behaviour of the being.Motivation is a driving state; it is also a behaviour encouragement state within the individual. Motivation directs the behaviour towards a goal. It is thus an inner everlasting condition of the being that forces him or her into action.
Motivation has the following three aspects: (a) A driving state within the being that is set in motion by bodily needs, provocations or emotional (b) The behaviour encouraged and directed by state and (c) The goal towards which the performance is directed.
We never observe motives directly. Rather we assume their existence from the people say about the way they feel and from observing that people and animals work towards certain goals. In other words, motives are inferences behaviour. If our inferences about motives are correct, we have a powerful for the explanation of behaviour. Truly speaking, most of our everyday explanations of behaviour are in terms of motives.
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...According to the text book, motivation refers to a psychological process that gives behavior purpose and direction. Managers attempt to motivate individuals to pursue organizational objectives willingly and persistently and be loyal to the organization.
According BusinessDictionary.com motivation is Internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested and committed to a job, role or subject, or to make an effort to attain a goal.
Motivation results from the interaction of both conscious and unconscious factors such as the (1) intensity of desire or need, (2) incentive or reward value of the goal, and (3) expectations of the individual and of his or her peers. These factors are the reasons one has for behaving a certain way.
According to the management text book there are four theories of motivation but I am going to talk about three theories that I feel are the most important.
The First theory is Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory. Psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced his concept of a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" and his subsequent book Motivation and Personality. This hierarchy suggests that people are motivated to fulfill basic needs before moving on to other, more advanced needs.
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